(Headline USA) California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Wednesday that aims to stop other states from prosecuting ‘doctors’ and pharmacists who mail abortion pills to mothers wishing to murder their baby where infanticide is banned.
California already has a law protecting ‘doctors’ who provide infanticide from out-of-state judgements. But that law was designed to protect ‘doctors’ who treat patients from other states who travel to California.
The new law goes further by forbidding authorities from cooperating with out-of-state investigations into ‘doctors’ who mail abortion pills to patients in other states. It also bans bounty hunters or bail agents from apprehending ‘doctors,’ ‘pharmacists’ and parents wishing to commit infanticide in California and transporting them to another state to stand trial for killing a child.
California’s law also bars state-based social media companies — like Facebook — from complying with out-of-state subpoenas, warrants or other requests for records to discover the identity of mothers seeking to kill their babies.
“Health care providers, physically located in California, will be able to offer a lifeline [more like a death-line] to people in states that have cut off access to [infanticide],” state Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Berkeley Democrat and author of the bill, said in a statement.
The law only protects ‘doctors’ and pharmacists who reside in California. If a ‘doctor’ or pharmacist leaves California to provide care to a patient in another state, the law would not protect them.
The California Catholic Conference opposed the law, arguing the state is “engaging in ideological colonization against states and citizens that do not want abortion.”
“Denying the legitimate interest of other states to protect unborn children and public health is a dangerous precedent,” the association wrote in a letter to lawmakers earlier this year.
The law is one of eight that Newsom signed on Wednesday aiming to protect access to infanticide.
The Democrats who control California’s Legislature have made the continuation of infanticide a priority in their state since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press
